How to Watermark Your Images and PDF Files for Brand Awareness and Copyright Protection

Having a couple of hours of free time on the holidays, (instead of having at least some rest) I decided to take time looking for the ways to brand my images and PDfs I spread online.

Basically I was looking for some basic tools that would place a cute watermark on any images I want and I can tell you, finding a really useful and usable tool was not easy.

Anyway, I figured that some of my readers might be interested in that too – so I am sharing my tips here: some free useful watermarking utilities to identify and brand your images and PDF files:

Watermarking PDF files

Most PDF editors and converters are paid, I was really happy to discover one which is free, feature-rich and bug-free: PDFill

Just download and install the tool (the tool requires Ghostscript but don’t worry, the tool will install it automatically if you allow to) and run it. You will be able to access its multiple features – among them: text or image watermarks:

Don’t be fooled by the simplistic interface: the output is not bad at all. This one creates image watermarks and can also process only one image at a time:

And here’s a short overview of the three tools listed above for you to quickly compare:

Watermark type

Bulk

Fast watermark

Text

No

Photo watermark

Text

Yes

Java watermark

Image

No

Free Online Watermark Creators

An online tool is only good unless you need it daily. When it comes to online watermarking tools, you won’t b able to find anything fancy but there’s no excuse for not checking one: they are all free and require no registration.

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Very, very interesting! I would have never thought to do this. I just seen another post on brand thieving, and I’m so glad I came across these posts since I’m getting into the whole search marketing local area I will really be able to use this information for later use in my project(s).